China has placed military forces on heightened alert in the northeastern part of the country as tensions mount on the Korean peninsula following recent threats by Pyongyang to attack, U.S. officials said.

Reports from the region reveal the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) recently increased its military posture in response to the heightened tensions, specifically North Korea's declaration of a "state of war" and threats to conduct missile attacks against the United States and South Korea.

The ChiComs could easily control the NK’s they just like having them as an irritant and distraction to the US and the West. Usually when the NK’s get too out of control the Chinese turn off the gas pipe and food for a few weeks and they calm down.

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posted on 04/01/2013 1:01:36 PM PDT
by Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)

The chicoms will depose the chiapet. The chicoms will heap the burden of NK on SK. SK will remain loyal to the USA, but will become the chicoms’ biggest trading partner. The chicoms are not stupid. We, lead by our small minded president, are stupid.

Seems like they’re getting ready to move on both North Korea and the Middle East. A reliable source confirms strange military flights related to the Middle East.

I don’t trust this foreign enemy combatant in the White House AT ALL. He fights for the wrong side, so I expect nothing but bad for the US in any effort he is involved with. If he’s community-organizing trouble with the communists and Islamists (with whom he’s been allied his whole life long) then it’s because he knows they will wipe us out and making it appear as “war” gives an excuse for our military to be “accidentally” wiped out.

Sort of like Benghazi.

I watched “Black Hawk Down” last week, and the thought of a similar situation in which we had the capability of scattering the enemy forces through the use of armed drones too high to be shot out of the sky - very accurately because the exact coordinates of the people shooting at our guys were transmitted and targets “painted” - resulted in American deaths because nobody would allow us to defend our own people from an unprovoked attack.... disgusts me. This is supposedly an allied government, a government WE PUT IN PLACE through the use of armed drones, and yet when we’re attacked nobody would defend our guys even though it would have been a piece of cake to do so.

After that, I see no reason to trust ANYBODY in this regime, with ANYTHING. If they are beating the war drums, it is so they can off some more of our soldiers under cover of “war”. Or maybe start the Armageddon that Ahmadinejad seems more and more confident will happen within the next year or so. That’s all.

China has placed military forces on heightened alert in the northeastern part of the country as tensions mount on the Korean peninsula following recent threats by Pyongyang to attack, U.S. officials said.

Reports from the region reveal the Chinese Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) recently increased its military posture in response to the heightened tensions, specifically North Koreas declaration of a state of war and threats to conduct missile attacks against the United States and South Korea.

According to the officials, the PLA has stepped up military mobilization in the border region with North Korea since mid-March, including troop movements and warplane activity.

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posted on 04/01/2013 1:11:38 PM PDT
by little jeremiah
(Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)

China could watch and protect the Norks as they ravish the south and Japan. Then China invades the North—stops the war after North Korea takes out rivals Japan and South Korea—woe to those who own Korean Cars. A few weeks of war could well see a place within China new empire—her people will eat at least—China wants healthy slaves.

Patton had similar advice about Russia. We are a paper tiger now and the world pretty much knows it. The only way to fix that would be stomp the crap out of some country and leave. The worst thing we’ve done is stay in Iraq and Afghanistan all this time with nothing to show for it. Unfortunately, our own people can’t stomach something like that anymore anyway. Give it 50 years, and we might as well fly a chinese flag here cause if they have not beaten us militarily, they will have financially anyway.

"The chicoms will depose the chiapet. The chicoms will heap the burden of NK on SK. SK will remain loyal to the USA, but will become the chicoms biggest trading partner. The chicoms are not stupid. We, lead by our small minded president, are stupid.

I think you may be on to something here. I remember a few articles in the last year or so where the Chinese are terrified of a South Korea/North Korea reunification. With South Korea's massive technology base and industry(particularly shipbuilding), the thought of endless workers that could propel that country to the top economically frightens them. They may move in and just finish NK off for their own nefarious purposes.

I sort of agree on that one. The only thing that brings me pause is wondering how the world’s perception of nukes may have changed, had we finished the war with them and people noticed that they are not the terrible world radiating devices we were all led to believe.

IOW, it could have ended that war but created a world where nuclear weapons use was no more morally unacceptabe than carpet bombing.

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